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RC THE TETONS: Interpretations of a mountain landscape (cloth). by Fritiof Fryxell.
1938 first editon with author's gifting notation in front: "To Dean and Mrs. E. H. Kraus with the sincere appreciaton of 'the Base Lake contingent.' --F. M. Fryxell". At the bottom of this same page is "June, 1942" in the same script and fine pen. Fryxell was an early Grand Teton National Park ranger-naturalist who made numerous first ascents of the peaks there, authored numerous books on its geology and completed several more for Francois Matthes on Yosemite and Sierra Nevada topics, and was affiliated with the U.S. Geological Survey, as well as a professor of geology. In World War II as assistant chief of the Military Geology Unit, Fryxell was responsible for analyzing the terrain of projected battle sites.(It is intriguing that there has long been a military installation in Nebraska at a Base Lake, yet that name does not appear on a lake in Wyoming or at any other place in the United States, so a possibility is that Fryxell had been associated there during the war. It also is that the Dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at University of Michigan in 1942 was E. H. Kraus, a professsor of mineralogy, who was married. It does not take much imagination to posit that Kraus in some way assisted Fryxell's military geology work and Fryxell recognized that with a gift. (These are strong clues as to who Fryxell signed this copy for, already perhaps known beyond a reasonable doubt, and help us surmise that this copy was once owned by Dean Kraus.) Published by University of California Press by Samuel T. Farquhar, University Printer (brother of Francis P. Farquhar, a Sierra Nevada mountaineer who authored several books on that region and its history and was a Sierra Club president).
On the tan dust jacket of this book is the notation in red type: "A guide for visitors to the Grand Teton National Park, and a delight for travelers by the fireside." Fryxell contrasts the Tetons with near Yellowstone National Park and describes the mountains and their rocks and faults and explains how the scenic features were formed, including their later glaciation, then describes the present landscape and even the cloudscape with personal observations. Black-and-white photographs show both scenery and rock samples; two diagrams give the distribution of the rock types in both plan and cross-section views. A fold-out map is attached. Size is 5.25 in x 7.75 in, 76 pages, illustrated, map, index.

The dust jacket is in good conditon, lightly soiled, having no tears, with the front inside flap clipped diagonally at its top; back jacket flap is intact. Cloth covers are rust-colored; on the front cover is printed the title; the back is blank. Inside pages are unmarked except for the gifting inscription. All pages and illustrations are present and intact and the binding is tight. The map has a 1-inch tear where it is attached; otherwise is solidly in place and smoothly folded. Using eBay's rating of condition, this book is judged Very Good.

ISBN: None. /Order #: VINT3653 cloth$480.00. RC Also available on eBay.com and vialibri.net. See a similar title: VINT3654 (1984; paper)

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